03/29/2011

Three things you'll see a lot of in Port au Prince

Destroyed homes. Every day, we pass this house on the way to and from the hospital. It leans so precariously you'd think it's going to fall into the road.

Garbage. With no rubish collection to speak up, people just pile it in the street and eventaully set it on fire.

Street vendors. With so many shops and businesses still destroyed, street merchants have become that more important. The sidewalk is the shopping mall - where you can everything from coal, cell phones and tires to furniture, DVDs and food.

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Greg Mercer

In late March 2011, Record journalist Greg Mercer heads back to Haiti a year after first reporting on a medical aid mission that included doctors and nurses from St. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener.
He'll be covering ongoing work to modernize the Hopital Universitaire de la Paix in Port au Prince, in a country still struggling to rebuild after its devastating earthquake.
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